TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium. TermKit has been originally designed for Mac OSX, but there is a TermKit fork by Floby which you can install and experience in Ubuntu right now! Read on.

How to Install TermKit in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal?

You need to have either Chromium or Google Chrome already installed in your Ubuntu.

You need to install the following dependencies as well. Just fire up your Terminal and copy-paste the command below.

sudo apt-get install git libssl-dev

Done. Now, lets get started with installing TermKit in Ubuntu.

Install TermKit in Ubuntu

The following steps will create a directory called TermKitProj in your home directory and install everything you need inside it.